Posted by tensor on December 4, 2006, at 17:19:52
In reply to Why your medicine may not help, posted by Vale on December 4, 2006, at 15:54:34
Interesting, this was what I was thinking about last night when I couldn't sleep (as usual). Many people are embittered by drug companies making profits on our illnesses. I can understand it. But the researchers at the drug companies are trying to find a way to give at least symptomatic relief in the, as you said, perhaps most complex structure in the universe (the brain). NB. not a "cure", we are not anywhere near a cure, we will perhaps never get there.
As the human evolve, so does the human brain, it gets more complex and can undertake more complex problems to solve. If the problem in this case originates from the brain itself (mental disorders) then the researchers in hope of trying to find a cure are like a cat chasing its own tail. It/they can never reach. This is perhaps a pessimistic view, or it's just a realistic. Time will tell.
I agree that e.g. AD's can never work in the long run. The brain or a specific part of it will ultimately find a way around it or adjust to the presence of the drug. Some might say "hey, I have taken Prozac for ten years without a sign of a relapse or symptoms", this could be explained by that the underlying disorder has resolved years ago and you are just taking your med "just in case", i.e. if the med was discontinued the symptoms wouldn't recur.
There is a certain percentage that will have one depression once for, say, three months and never again. I'm not one of them. I believe mine is genetically determined, my brain is hard-wired to have certain levels of substances abundant in the synaptic cleft etc. There's no cure for that, can only hope to find meds that makes me as free of symptoms as possible.
/Mattias
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